Oregon Elections Division shuts down phone lines after barrage of calls prompted by false claims
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 3d ago 100%

    I say there's a good chance Trump deliberately did not submit a statement just to get this to happen.

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  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 4d ago 100%

    Yes, it is. I just need to know that the passkeys are in that file and that all the apps I use to read that file support them.

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  • The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 4d ago 100%

    I don't entirely disagree, but I think defining much of that in effective legal terms is going to be virtually impossible. And I'm super-wary of anything that says someone can't link to something.

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  • Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 4d ago 100%

    Just be careful how you do it. The First Amendment gives a lot of leeway for people to be shitty.

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  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 4d ago 100%

    I need to sync my passkeys between all my devices--which really means I need keepass to store the private keys in its DB so I can sync it with all the other keepass-compatible apps I use in various places. Last I looked, this wasn't solved, but it's been a minute. I'm certainly not using a centralized password manager unless they all can freely import and export from one another. I understand this is a "being worked on" problem.

    So someday, yes.

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  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 4d ago 100%

    If you get my master keepass password, you have all my passwords, too.

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  • The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 7d ago 95%

    I agree they should. But I also agree they shouldn't be required to. And if they don't, that we should just live with it as the lesser of two evils.

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  • Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 1w ago 19%

    A) I don't think there's anything illegal, here, and B) of course large private agencies manipulate elections, from news agencies to SuperPACs to social media, and C) there's not a heck of a lot we can do about that.

    The best thing we can do is smarten up and think for ourselves. In short, we're doomed!😅

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  • License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 2w ago 100%

    Hmm. I have a bumper sticker that says "I ❤️ Nuclear War". I wonder what bucket that puts me in.

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  • https://medium.com/yandex/good-retry-bad-retry-an-incident-story-648072d3cee6

    I've never run a big system like this, but like the lead character in the story, I always figured exponential backoff would be enough. Turns out there's more.

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    SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 2w ago 100%

    I remember it being a big space sink when I was editing video. Now all I have is DVD rips of my collection and those are nice and compact.

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  • Nichibutsu's 1981 Space Shooter 'Moon Shuttle' Is This Week's Arcade Archives Release | Time Extension
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 2w ago 100%

    Oh, man, I'd forgotten about this game! Used to play it on the C64!

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  • Google Is Stuffing Annoying Ads Into Its Terrible AI Search Feature
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 2w ago 100%

    Yup. I signed up to their unlimited a while ago, so I was happy to not notice this at all. 🙂👍

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  • SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 2w ago 100%

    I can't believe how much mileage I've gotten out of my 512GB SSDs on my laptops. And my "big" backup disks are hand me down 1TB HDs my friend didn't need. I don't do video, though.

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  • Mozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 2w ago 100%

    People 100% aren’t going to pay to access every random website they want to visit. So what you’d end up with in a world without ads is only the big corporations being able to run a website.

    I'm not so convinced. I run a website with zero ads or tracking and I'm not a big corporation.

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  • Mozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 2w ago 100%

    I've been sticking with FF proper since it has the sync stuff that's easily used. But it sounds like it's about time to set up a sync server and run a FF fork.

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  • Mozilla will become an ad company
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 2w ago 100%

    Also, yes Mozilla, I'm sure the reason people aren't switching to Firefox is because it lacks good advertising support.

    100%, Google is leaning into Mozilla to make this happen.

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  • Mozilla will become an ad company
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 2w ago 100%

    Fuck the ad-based Internet right back to the putrid hole it came from. The second uBO stops working is the second I stop using that browser.

    I wasn't always this way. I used to not block ads to help support creators. I used to have ads on my website 15 years ago. And for this transgression, I sincerely apologize.

    Now I make money at my day job and everything I post, which is a substantial amount, is free and untracked (except for 5 days of web server request logs).

    Sure I can't write full time with this model, but we're billions of people. If we each just made 10 minutes of good content a week, that's more than we can possibly consume.

    And I'd rather have more good content than I could possibly read than the mountains of AI-generated SEO tripe that advertising brings.

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  • My experience with microsoft's ads for linux.
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 3w ago 100%

    My parents are in their 80s and this crap will push them to Linux.

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  • Cycle helmet safety ranked by new Imperial research | Imperial News | Imperial College London
  • beejjorgensen beejjorgensen 3w ago 100%

    We found no correlation between price and protection, with the highest-performing helmet being one of the less expensive, retailing at around £50.

    What a scam. I'll bet the same thing happens with motorcycle helmets.

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  • newatlas.com

    This is a pretty cool analog arcade game. I never saw one when I was a kid... I'd have been hooked.

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    www.lumafield.com

    This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

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    https://www.ebay.com/itm/115558782739

    Can be yours for a mere $155,000. (No, I'm not the seller, but I'm curious who is!)

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    github.com

    This coder rigged up GPT to create IF games.

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    hackthedeveloper.com

    Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you write a C program? How does your code transform from lines of text into a fully functional binary executable? If you’ve been curious about the intricacies of the C program compilation process, you’ve come to the right place.

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